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What 12 gauge 2 buy!!!!!!!!!

Ok i need a 12 or a 20 gauge and there is way to many guns to find the right one so heres my guidlines

1. under 400$
2. semi-auto or pump
3. i will be trap and big game shooting so i dont no weather a combo would be good or not
4. i prefer a 7 round but it doesnt really matter
5. i prefer a well known name brand (remington, beretta, mossberg, browning, etc)

IT WILL BE MAINLY USED FOR TRAP SHOOTING
BIG GAME IS ONLY IN WINTER SO I HAVE TIME TO BUY DIFFERENT BARREL IF NESSISARY

Re: What 12 gauge 2 buy!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by wooby_dooby

Ok i need a 12 or a 20 gauge and there is way to many guns to find the right one so heres my guidlines

1. under 400$
2. semi-auto or pump
3. i will be trap and big game shooting so i dont no weather a combo would be good or not
4. i prefer a 7 round but it doesnt really matter
5. i prefer a well known name brand (remington, beretta, mossberg, browning, etc)

IT WILL BE MAINLY USED FOR TRAP SHOOTING
BIG GAME IS ONLY IN WINTER SO I HAVE TIME TO BUY DIFFERENT BARREL IF NESSISARY

Re: What 12 gauge 2 buy!!!!!!!!!

Mossberg 500 multiple barrel set -- my buddy just bought the one with the 28" vent rib double-bead and multiple chokes as well as a heavy-barrel rifled slug barrel w/a cantilver mount and a scope -- it is nice!

Funny thing is he meant to get the Security package with the 28" and 18 1/2" barrel and will be asking me to sell the big game barrel...

Al

PS: I became Distinguished Expert in Trap w/a Mossberg 500 but back then a vent rib barrel with interchangeable chokes was a specialty item and I had to have a tiny mid-bead custom added by a gunsmith!

Re: What 12 gauge 2 buy!!!!!!!!!

Well, u don't NEED a gun w/a decal melted around it.

There are a lot of sabot shotgun rounds to choose from for hunting -- go to a manufacturer's site and read up on these odd, accurate, state of the art shotgun hunting rounds that basically turn your shotgun into an express rifle. You COULD use a smoothbore shotgun barrel and rifled slugs -- check those out too.

Trap? A Modified choke is common -- sometimes people use Full. Both will come with your gun as well as an Improved Cylinder choke. I'd recommend Improved Modified for Trap and you can always get one of those later. Shells? The inexpensive sport packs everywhere are fine: they're four 25-rns boxes of I think 2 3/4" 1 1/8th oz. of #7.5 to #9 shot that aren't overloaded with powder.